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Pop-ups - Slow And Freezes

I am trying to clean a Windows 2K system that is infected with viruses and malware. I have run AdAware and CounterSpy, F-Protect and TrendMicro Housecall and they have removed many malware items, but the malware keep returning after a few days. I am also getting errors like "Winlogon.exe has generated an error and will close... " or "Explorer.exe has generated and error and will be closed". The system has two user accounts. The 'administrator' account works fine, but the 'working' account willl bring up the 'Winlogon.exe or Explorer.exe will close...' errors. This means that whenever I try to access anything using explorer.exe such as Windows Explorer or Run the Windows Explorer application shuts down. Very frustrating!!!

Search in the list for all previous installed versions of Java. (J2SE Runtime Environment.... )

It should have next icon next to it:
Select it and click Remove.

The current version can be downloaded from Sun here: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp Scroll down the page to 'Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 7' and press the 'Download' button. On the new web page, click the 'Accept License Agreement' button. Then select 'Windows Offline Installation, Multi-language' in the Windows Platform area just below the Accept button.

I fixed the Java as you suggested. The OPTO program is a clinet managment and billing prpgram for an Optometrist/Optician's office. I am working with that program's support people to resolve the TEMP location problem. I ran Kaspersky Anti-Virus and it did a better job of removing viruses/malware than the user installed F-Protect. The system seems to much happier now. One problem was that the workstations did not have rights to install Windows updates, something no one was aware of - for two years.